md8z

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by md8z 5y ago
All patches have a maintenance cost, different projects have different thresholds for what they will accept and what they won't, that's completely ordinary. Not anything I've seen specific to GNOME or KDE or any other project
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by md8z 5y ago
I really can't agree, the GNOME stuff I've used as a developer has been great for me. Keep in mind that no software project will ever be able to accept all possible feature requests or pull requests, for example I wouldn't ex
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by md8z 5y ago
That isn't really true IMO. I don't think anything they are trying to do would be impossible with GNOME or KDE. But I get it, people need to put in the time to work with upstream, and for some who just want to ship products, that&
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by md8z 5y ago
That crowd is not new. There are numerous other desktops and they've been around for quite some time. In my view, none of them have ever come close to GNOME or KDE in terms of velocity. Also, it seems that few of them are even trying t
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand the question you are asking. Yes, if you configure GTK to load some CSS, it will do that. However that won't guarantee you see the correct styles, because CSS is technically not able to do that in all cases. If
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by md8z 5y ago
It's not the plan though. You can still inject global styles into libadwaita apps. It continues to be as bad an idea as it was before. I'm happy to provide details here.
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by md8z 5y ago
Well there is no marketing department, so AFAIK the designers have to balance doing blogs and press releases with all their other work which is not easy to do. It is a non-zero amount of work to explain it. If you just want to have a quick
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by md8z 5y ago
I see all that, but the issue is fixed now. Yeah they made a design mistake and then they corrected it, it doesn't seem to be much different from any other bug. If you are trying to get help with something, it is not particularly usefu
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by md8z 5y ago
Dell does already ship a laptop with Ubuntu installed. No I don't think Best Buy and Walmart carry it, because the only target market for it is developers. I remember seeing lots of cheap netbooks that had a Linux option but no stores
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by md8z 5y ago
"So open discussion is not accepted, changes to the plan are not accepted because they're volunteers and can't accomodate everybody, merge requests are not ideal because they don't have time to review them." Please
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by md8z 5y ago
So your solution would be to not participate at all, ensuring that what you want has a 0% chance of ever getting done? Can't you see how that is strictly worse? And yeah, of course the number of people who can do it is limited, not eve
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by md8z 5y ago
It is no different from the "politics" you play at work every day. Your coworkers have to like and respect you (on some level) and you have to like and respect them or you will probably have a bad time. If you are new your boss pr
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by md8z 5y ago
I really don't agree with any of what you said. I have never been part of any internal clique and I've gotten patches in. The "examples" that I have seen posted around are bugs that get posted to hostile places like cert
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by md8z 5y ago
"it is what they do that matters and ever since Gtk3 they basically took over Gtk." I don't know what else to tell you. If you follow what is happening in GTK4 you will see that they are moving things out of GTK. This is what
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by md8z 5y ago
I really don't understand why you are posting this, this is a 9 year old bug that is marked fixed. Please read the rest of the comments on the bug beyond that one and please don't make me regret asking these questions, I'm fe
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't think they have quite enough resources to do AB testing, it seems that needs a pretty big group of people doing it over a long period of time. AFAIK they are only able to do smaller targeted studies. I'm not sure what you
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by md8z 5y ago
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, I still see an option for "Allow different input sources for each window" in the keyboard settings panel.
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by md8z 5y ago
Yes, there was data to decide that, you should ask them nicely on the proper channel if you want more info. Please avoid dismissing things as "bullshit", that's rude and it doesn't help the discussion. If you have any ad
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by md8z 5y ago
That is a misconception. The GNOME designers I have seen are not making decisions at random or removing things because they can, there actually is data and research to back up what they are doing. If you are a designer and are interested to
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by md8z 5y ago
Can you please give an example? Keep in mind that if a change fixes some accessibility issues for some people but then causes other accessibility regressions elsewhere, that could also be bad and not wanted. Nobody wants to be the person to
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by md8z 5y ago
The amount of misinformation on the net about theming in libadwaita is staggering. Global styling hasn't been disabled. There is nothing there that would really affect them in any significantly worse way than GTK3. That isn't to s
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by md8z 5y ago
I have heard people saying that for 20 years. "We just need to get more OEM preinstalls and then Windows will fail." Meanwhile, various OEMs have come and gone (i.e. they all crumpled under the pressure) and nothing happened. Syst
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by md8z 5y ago
They said they weren't going to do that and they would continue to use GTK. Also, this is wrong: "because at this point Gtk is a vector for Gnomisms to projects outside of Gnome." In GTK4 the goal has actually been to intenti
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't think this is going to help at all. There are already way too many desktops for Linux and none of them are pushing GNOME or KDE to keep up. To me this is just another one to add to the pile sadly. We already went through this w
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by md8z 5y ago
Just FYI. If your suggestions for "making it better" for yourself would be making it worse for other users, then that probably would be why your suggestions weren't taken. GNOME has made accessibility a priority for a while n
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by md8z 5y ago
Which LTS distros were you looking at that did not receive security backports?
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by md8z 5y ago
I can't say that's been my experience, are you by chance using a rolling release distribution?
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by md8z 5y ago
I used a minimalist WM for many years but stopped because I realized I was just being stubborn and resisting change for no reason. It ended up being more work to constantly keep trying to compensate for things that are missing in such a &qu
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by md8z 5y ago
As someone who has been hacking on desktop stuff for a while, I totally disagree with your comment. Maintaining a different desktop is a massive undertaking. The total amount of lines of code in GNOME or KDE is comparable to the lines of co
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't really get it. I mean, I hear your frustration, but you're saying you would rather spend your life maintaining a fork? I hope you see how that's also a bad option... How can this be done so everybody wins?

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